TypoC book club?

[strawberries]

Just picked up the book from the library. This is quite the hefty volume we have selected!

i would like to play. i just looked it up - 1000 pages! i am in a three dimensional book club too, i have a full-time job and i am an extravert who enjoys long walks on the beach. i will try my best to finish this big boy within the month

please invite me to the group thingo. thank you kindly.

 

[slowriot]

i would like to play. i just looked it up - 1000 pages! i am in a three dimensional book club too, i have a full-time job and i am an extravert who enjoys long walks on the beach. i will try my best to finish this big boy within the month

please invite me to the group thingo. thank you kindly.

Hey Strawberries

Im not in a three dimensional book club, i dont have a job, Im not an extrovert, but I do like long walks on the beach. You should write me back, it seems we have a lot in common.


Slowriot

 

[InvisibleJim]

tbh I'll probably have it finished by Monday. Anyway it would appear we have 2 weeks to read it; it's only 67 pages per day.

 

[MacGuffin]

I will weigh in next year when I have time to read 1000 pages again, lol.

 

[Aquarelle]

tbh I'll probably have it finished by Monday. Anyway it would appear we have 2 weeks to read it; it's only 67 pages per day.

Yeah, if I had the time and really got in to the book, I'd probably get it done pretty fast (though still probably not by Monday ). But alas, I don't have enough time to read 67 pages of non-school reading a day.

 

[ExAstrisSpes]

FYI, I think we're only reading the first four chapters for the Feb. 15 discussion.

 

[Laurie]

I have to say I may not end up finishing this. Trying to read it feels like taking my medicine for the day. I may still try but I wanted to confess.

Im reading it on ebook but I have the book coming in the mail. Maybe I will like the experience better with a book.

What is the group for? I'm in it - just wondering if I should be watching it.

 

[Aquarelle]

What is the group for? I'm in it - just wondering if I should be watching it.

Just to post info, so people always know what book we are currently reading, if they want to join in.

 

[KDude]

I have multiple unfinished Neal Stephenson novels lying on the shelf next to me. I've cracked them all open for a time.. they're not unread for the hell of it. He's not one of those writers that clicks with me, I guess.

 

[gromit]

Trying to read it feels like taking my medicine for the day.

I felt that way too, but I only read 1 or 2 sentences. I am thinking/hoping it will get better once I have gotten more of a sense of the setting of the story.

 

[Randomnity]

haha sounds encouraging. can't wait to get my copy.

 

[Qlip]

I have multiple unfinished Neal Stephenson novels lying on the shelf next to me. I've cracked them all open for a time.. they're not unread for the hell of it. He's not one of those writers that clicks with me, I guess.

Which ones?

 

[gromit]

haha sounds encouraging. can't wait to get my copy.

Haha. I've known at least 1 person to rave about that book though.

 

[Randomnity]

Yeah, that happened for me with Atlas Shrugged. omg was that an awful book, and I read a lot of awful books just out of boredom. But it gets rave reviews from some.

 

[gromit]

Heheh... Atlas Shrugged:

 

[ExAstrisSpes]

I think Ayn Rand is one of those people who you have to read when you're an angsty teen. I really liked The Fountainhead, but I don't think I could go back and reread it.

 

[Aquarelle]

Heheh... Atlas Shrugged:

 

[KDude]

Which ones?

I'm just going to say I've read enough of Cryptonomicon. I have parts of the baroque cycle and snow crash, but I don't know enough about them. I don't have Anathem. I don't mean to knock him though.. sometimes I just need to be in the right frame of mind to kickstart an interest in a book.

 

[Qlip]

I'm just going to say I've read enough of Cryptonomicon. I have parts of the baroque cycle and snow crash, but I don't know enough about them. I don't have Anathem. I don't mean to knock him though.. sometimes I just need to be in the right frame of mind to kickstart an interest in a book.

No worries, people have different tastes. I just wanted to know because I always figured that Snow Crash was the easiest read and Diamond Age next. I couldn't imagine either of them being put down halfway. The others are a different story, I could see them disagreeing more with people.

 

[ExAstrisSpes]

No worries, people have different tastes. I just wanted to know because I always figured that Snow Crash was the easiest read and Diamond Age next. I couldn't imagine either of them being put down halfway. The others are a different story, I could see them disagreeing more with people.

Having read only Cryptonomicon before, and already having an interest in the subject matter, I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you're not a fan of math/cryptology perhaps Cryptonomicon is not the best book of his to start out with. His male characters are thoroughly interesting to read about, coming from a female NF perspective. His female characters are not as well-developed, unfortunately.